Daily Archives: March 8, 2013

This is one of the most important posts ever on WUWT, it will be a top “sticky” post for a few days, and new posts will appear below this one during that time. People send me stuff. Imagine, shooting 40,000 elephants to prevent the land in Africa from going to desert because scientists thought the…

Guest post by Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels We haven’t seen any media stories relating global warming to the Wednesday’s weather in D.C. We are certain that this would not have been the case had more than 11.5 inches of snow accumulated at Reagan National Airport, as it would have set the…

From Brown University: Statistical physics offers an approach to studying climate change that could dramatically reduce the time and brute-force computing that current simulation techniques require. The new approach focuses on fundamental forces that drive climate rather than on “following every little swirl” of water or air. And yes, there’s an app for that. PROVIDENCE,…

From Stanford University Stanford scientists calculate the carbon footprint of grid-scale battery technologies Americans take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use of solar and wind power in the United States makes the on-demand delivery of electricity more challenging. A key problem is that the U.S. electrical…

The very first sentence of the Marcott et al (which is getting heavy press) abstract says: Surface temperature reconstructions of the past 1500 years suggest that recent warming is unprecedented in that time. Okay, let’s have a look at the claim. First this graph from the publication: Seems reasonable when you look at that data,…

Image Credit: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center From CNN with comments below by WUWT regular Just The Facts: Global warming has propelled Earth’s climate from one of its coldest decades since the last ice age to one of its hottest — in just one century. A heat spike like this has never happened before, at…

The crisis is due not to climate change, but to actions taken in the name of preventing change Guest Post by Paul Driessen In his first address as Secretary of State, John Kerry said we must safeguard “the most sacred trust” we owe to our children and grandchildren: “an environment not ravaged by rising seas,…